incomprehensible

Who acts: it, mumbled words, His, size · What happens: understand, not make, write, be, word · To what, where: sense, you, old scroll, incomprehensible language

«incomprehensible» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: incomprehensible in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

So hard to understand that it does not make sense to you: an incomprehensible language.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 hard	advmod
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 understand	mark
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hard	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 understand	advcl
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 language	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 language	det
15	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 language	amod
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hard	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not make	present · do-support	it	sense	you				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Example 1

The old scroll was written in an incomprehensible language.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scroll	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scroll	amod
3	scroll	scroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 language	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 language	det
8	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 written	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		the old scroll		a incomprehensible language			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in language=Destination

Example 2

His mumbled words were incomprehensible.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	mumbled	mumbled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 incomprehensible	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 incomprehensible	cop
5	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 incomprehensible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His mumbled words					incomprehensible property	tree rules
2	word		His = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The size of the universe is almost incomprehensible.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 size	det
2	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incomprehensible	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 universe	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 universe	det
5	universe	universe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 size	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 incomprehensible	cop
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 incomprehensible	advmod
8	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 incomprehensible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the size of the universe					almost, incomprehensible property	tree rules

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